{"id":30848,"date":"2011-12-08T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30848"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:05:28","slug":"thailand-us-blogger-jailed-for-insulting-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30848","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: US blogger jailed for insulting king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger has been jailed for <a title=\"Al Jazeera :  US blogger jailed for insulting Thai king\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2011\/12\/201112844554785361.html\">two and a half years<\/a> after posting excerpts of a biography online deemed offensive to the <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Thailand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Thailand\" target=\"_blank\">Thai<\/a> monarchy.\u00a0Joe Gordon,\u00a0a\u00a0Colorado resident who was born in Thailand, translated excerpts of a locally banned biography\u00a0of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and posted them on his US blog.\u00a0Gordon pleaded guilty to\u00a0disseminating information that insulted the monarchy. <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Thailand : Facebookers who 'like' anti-monarchy groups could face trial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/11\/thailand-facebookers-who-like-anti-monarchy-groups-could-face-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\">In November<\/a>, government minister&#8217;s warned that Thailand&#8217;s notoriously tough\u00a0lese-majeste law could even affect &#8220;liking&#8221; a page on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger has been jailed for two and a half years after posting excerpts of a biography online deemed offensive to the Thai monarchy.\u00a0Joe Gordon,\u00a0a\u00a0Colorado resident who was born in Thailand, translated excerpts of a locally banned biography\u00a0of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and posted them on his US blog.\u00a0Gordon pleaded guilty to\u00a0disseminating information that insulted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[4027,346,343,4076,7377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}